A job advertisement for a graphics/website designer has been posted on the mozillaZine website. Mozilla is creating a new website, called Mozillion, aimed at raising a million dollars in 12 months, and it wants a talented individual to work on it for free. The company has put together a competition which it hopes will attract the best graphic designers out there to help create the Mozillion site. The competition doesn't offer any prizes other than kudos, and allows a single designer or team to create a logo for the initiative, a mock homepage, and a single internal page. The deadline for the competition is midnight (PDT) on May 7th.

The Mozillion website is meant to spearhead the fundraising process, and bases its approach on similar campaigns run by political parties. The site will act as the base for donations, but people who donate can also create their own sites to attract more people to donate money through them. Mozilla gives the example of the John Kerry donation site as a good example of what it is aiming for.

MATTHEW'S OPINION
I am sure there are many designers out there with a bit of free time to come up with a nice front end and logo for the site. There are a lot of people who support Mozilla and what it is trying to achieve with its growing range of software, and most of these people currently work in or are associated with the computer industry.

Companies need to get their users involved, especially if, like Mozilla, you are giving what you produce away for free. Allowing people to set up their own sites to encourage others to give should gather more funds while leaving Mozilla to get on with creating and updating its software.

Whether the Mozilla Foundation will make it to a million though is a tough call. Mozilla has already received a lot of press over the last 12 months but only received US$100,000 in donations. Mozillion will help, but gathering 10 times the funding is going to be a struggle, I think.

no $ no work(10:44am EST Thu Apr 29 2004)Ya sorry. I work for $$. Not recognition or praise. If I sit behind a screen, you pay me for it. - by JJ

lol(10:44am EST Thu Apr 29 2004)year right i'll donate to this not for profit charity, lol. - by mugs

more bang for the buck(10:53am EST Thu Apr 29 2004)

… I'd rather donate $ to Mozilla than to (yet another) politico who is just going to scr3w us as much as the one scr3wing us now (pardon the language).

Moz has been my browser for quite some time. When Mozillion gets going I'm going to support them.

- by Purple Sage

lol(11:01am EST Thu Apr 29 2004)mug - by muggins

I'm using Mozilla to post this(2:13pm EST Thu Apr 29 2004)I usually would be using Foxfire on W2K, but the Knoppix boot CD I'm using has Mozilla on KDE. Knoppix STD has Firefox, and uses the Fluxbox desktop I prefer. There's this really cool blue radiant tropical pool with floating wood rectangle windows that makes use enjoyable. - by tech

um…mozilla is owned by aol(11:43pm EST Thu Apr 29 2004)so if it's owned by aol, why do they need donations? and for those of you who think it's independent, check back into reality. it's an aborted project, aborted by aol no less, without traction. donate to opera instead. - by reality bites

reality bites:(5:47am EST Fri Apr 30 2004)nope. Netscape is owned by AOL (or rather abandoned soon). Netscape is AOL's idea of bloating up Mozilla code. Netscape, even before AOL owned the name, relied on “Mozilla” crew (before an official Mozilla release) to provide the base core to its browser.

AOL takes a Mozilla code and bloats it up to AOL standards. It does not “own” Mozilla. At least not in the way it owns Netscape. - by DueTrumpet